in reply to CPAN shell command formatting

It may be whether, or which, Term::ReadLine is installed.

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Re^2: CPAN shell command formatting
by hda (Chaplain) on May 30, 2022 at 11:04 UTC
    Thank you for this. In both I have Term::ReadLine (1.14) and Term::ReadLine::Perl (1.0303).
    A difference is that I have Term::ReadLine::Gnu installed where I have plain characters but NOT in the machine where I see bold command characters. I will explore what may be behind this and eventually report back.
    Thank you monks!

    This was also pointed out yesterday by Rolf, see above.
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      Well, I may have found the answer. Obviously reading the documentation :-)

      As pointed out by Rolf above (Re^3: CPAN shell command formatting), Term::ReadLine::Gnu and Term::ReadLine::Perl are possibly not entirely compatible. After exporting the variable:
      export "PERL_RL=Perl o=1"

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      Where "o=1" stands for ornaments are activated, which was also the setting in o conf. Things look as I desired now.

      Thank you everyone for the kind help!
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        I somehow remember having the same discussion about problematic highlighting and the Perl debugger, and it was also the Term::ReadLine backend to be blamed.

        Unfortunately I can't find it again, so I replied to you to make it searchable for others having the same problem, but with the debugger. :)

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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